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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

纯洁的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chúnjié de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Virginal/ˈvɜːr.dʒɪ.nəl/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这里的森林依然保持着原始纯洁的风貌。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or characteristic of a virgin; pure, chaste, or untainted.

    "The explorers gazed in awe at the virginal wilderness that had never seen human footfalls."
As noun
  1. 1

    An obsolete keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family, typically rectangular and lacking legs, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.

    "The musician delicately played a Renaissance melody on the antique virginal."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'virginalis', from 'go' meaning maiden or virgin. Entering Middle English via Old French in the 14th century, the term originally related to chastity before acquiring musical application in the 16th century to describe a small rectangular harpsichord played predominantly by young women.

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